Thursday, April 05, 2012

Sugar free - week three

I have been sugar free for over three weeks now and have lost 5 kilos, I am extremely impressed and pleased.

I'm not hungry, I feel well, each meal I eat fills me up and I don't crave food during the day.

My David Gillespie, Sweet Poison book arrived and I have been enjoying reading it and learning more.

My partner suffers from bad sinus and we know that wheat affects her, so for the next month we are removing wheat from our diet as well. Interestingly, on the day we decided to do this a friend posted this article on FB.

Dr. William Davis on why it is so addictive, and how shunning it will make you skinny

Q:How does wheat make us fat, exactly?

A: It contains amylopectin A, which is more
efficiently converted to blood sugar than just about any other
carbohydrate, including table sugar. In fact, two slices of whole wheat
bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And
then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky,
your brain feels foggy, you’re hungry. So let’s say you have an English
muffin for breakfast. Two hours later you’re starving, so you have a
handful of crackers, and then some potato chips, and your blood sugar
rises again. That cycle of highs and lows just keeps going throughout
the day, so you’re constantly feeling hungry and constantly eating.
Dieticians have responded to this by advising that we graze throughout
the day, which is just nonsense. If you eliminate wheat from your diet,
you’re no longer hungry between meals because you’ve stopped that cycle.
You’ve cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight
very quickly. I’ve seen this with thousands of patients.

Mmmm....bread!!!! Haven't had much of that lately myself as a result of the diet I'm on. You can always go for spelt bread though. It's a bit pricey at the health food shops but if you can get hold of some spelt flour it's relatively easy to make a loaf. Says me. Haven't tried making spelt bread yet but used to make my own wheat bread when I was eating it regularly.